Outstanding Play
The Balusters, by David Lindsay-Abaire
Outstanding Musical
Schmigadoon! The Seat of Our Pants
Outstanding Revival of a Play
Death of a Salesman
Outstanding Revival of a Musical
Ragtime
Outstanding Lead Performance in a Play
John Lithgow, Giant
Lesley Manville, Oedipus
Outstanding Lead Performance in a Musical
Joshua Henry, Ragtime
Caissie Levy, Ragtime
Outstanding Featured Performance in a Play
Alden Ehrenreich, Becky Shaw
Ruben Santiago-Hudson, Joe Turner’s Come and Gone
Outstanding Featured Performance in a Musical
Judy Kuhn, The Baker’s Wife
Ben Levi Ross, Ragtime
Outstanding Solo Performance
Jack Holden, Kenrex
Outstanding Direction of a Play
Joe Mantello, Death of a Salesman
Outstanding Direction of a Musical
Lear deBessonet, Ragtime
Outstanding Choreography
Christopher Gattelli, Schmigadoon!
Omari Wiles & Arturo Lyons, CATS: The Jellicle Ball
Outstanding Music
Brian Quijada and Nygel D. Robinson, Mexodus
Outstanding Lyrics
Jim Barne & Kit Buchan, Two Strangers (Carry a Cake Across New York)
Outstanding Book of a Musical
Brian Quijada and Nygel D. Robinson, Mexodus
Outstanding Orchestrations
David M. Lutken, Morgan Morse, Lisa Helmi Johanson, and Sherry Stregack Lutken, The Porch on Windy Hill
Outstanding Music in a Play
John Patrick Elliott, Kenrex
Outstanding Scenic Design of a Play
Chloe Lamford, Death of a Salesman
Outstanding Scenic Design of a Musical
Dane Laffrey, The Lost Boys
Outstanding Costume Design of a Play
Paul Tazewell, Joe Turner’s Come and Gone
Outstanding Costume Design of a Musical
Qween Jean, CATS: The Jellicle Ball
Outstanding Lighting Design of a Play
Jack Knowles, Death of a Salesman
Outstanding Lighting Design of a Musical
Jen Schriever and Michael Arden, The Lost Boys
Outstanding Sound Design of a Play
Tom Gibbons, Oedipus
Outstanding Sound Design of a Musical
Mikhail Fiksel, Mexodus (includes looping systems architecture)
Outstanding Projection and Video Design
Tal Yarden, Oedipus
Outstanding Wig and Hair
Nikiya Mathis, CATS: The Jellicle Ball
Outstanding Puppetry
Axtell Expressions, Amaze
Outstanding Fight Choreography
Gerry Rodriguez, The Monsters
Outstanding Adaptation
Oedipus, by Robert Icke
Outstanding Revue
About Time
Unique Theatrical Experience
Burnout Paradise
SPECIAL AWARDS
Ensemble Awards
The resonant quartet of Second Stage Theater’s revival of Marjorie Prime—Danny Burstein, Christopher Lowell, Cynthia Nixon, and June Squibb—who palpably tap into the emotions that make us human, even when playing AI versions of their characters, in Jordan Harrison’s prescient play about memory, aging, technology, and grief.
The cast of Intar Theatre’s Spread—Daniel Bravo Hernández, Luis Vega, Danny Gómez, Ishmael Gonzalez, and Jaden Perez—for creating warm camaraderie and individual vulnerability, bringing heft to Jesús I. Valles’s sharply observant and deeply compassionate coming-of-age tale of adolescents bravely facing challenges, current and future.
Sam Norkin Off-Broadway Award
To the creative and performance collaborators Xhloe Rice and Natasha Roland for their disparate historical-literary-interpretive works this season A Letter to Lyndon B Johnson or God and What If They Ate The Baby? Their absurdist sensibilities test the parameters of several genres and movement styles, including immersive historical drama, physical theater games, and 1950s American domestic realism, and invite new appreciation for all of them.
Additional Special Awards
The epic yet intimate Initiative gave us the full high school experience, making five-plus hours in the theater somehow feel like no time at all thanks to the collective of writer Else Went, director Emma Rosa Went, and the extraordinary ensemble cast of Olivia Rose Barresi, Brandon Burk, Greg Cuellar, Harrison Densmore, Carson Higgins, Andrea Lopez Alvarez, Jamie Sanders, and Christopher Dylan White. Collaborating over almost nine years, the Initiative team tapped into the world of D&D to illuminate the magic that can be found in devoting time to process, showing how the richness of a shared language can conjure community, produce ambitious art, and captivate audiences.
Diane Paulus, and the outstanding team of creative collaborators she assembled for Masquerade, Off-Broadway’s immersive reimagining of Andrew Lloyd Webber, Charles Hart, and Richard Stilgoe’s The Phantom of the Opera that has infused expansive ingenuity into a well-worn tale. Paulus’s “creative workshop” of directors, designers, stage managers, butlers, and more has crafted an experience that exemplifies the value of rigorous theatrical collaboration across all departments and disciplines.
The William Wolf Award (given by the Board of the Drama Desk)
Named for a former president of the Drama Desk, the William Wolf Award honors individuals who’ve made valuable contributions to the New York theater and entertainment community. The 2026 Wolf Award goes to Richard Maltby Jr. and David Shire, collaborators ever since they met in college seven decades ago. In addition to their musical shows and witty, insightful cabaret songs, the two have been mentors to countless young theater artists and have devoted enormous time to charitable causes. This season, their revue About Time completed a trilogy that began with Starting Here, Starting Now (1976) and Closer Than Ever (1989), depicting the emotional terrain of youth, midlife, and maturity with poignance and splendid melody.
The Harold S. Prince Award
As previously announced, the 2026 Harold S. Prince Award goes to Tom Schumacher, former president of Disney Theatrical Productions, for his outstanding contributions to the theater
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